Protopsyllidiidae Carpenter, 1931

Yang, Guang, Yao, Yunzhi & Ren, Dong, 2012, A new species of Protopsyllidiidae (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha) from the Middle Jurassic of China, Zootaxa 3274, pp. 36-42 : 36

Protopsyllidiidae Carpenter, 1931

Until now, 31 genera and 57 species have been described in this family. There are 28 species known from the Permian ( Tillyard 1926; Davis 1942; Evans 1943; Bekker-Migdisova 1959, 1960, 1985; Riek 1976; Klimaszewski 1995), two species from the Triassic ( Tillyard 1917; Evans 1956), 20 species from the Jurassic ( Martynov 1937; Handlirsch 1939; Evans 1956; Bekker-Migdisova 1959, 1968, 1985; Lin 1976; Klimaszewski 1995; Ansorge 1996), and seven species from the Cretaceous ( Klimaszewski 1995; Grimaldi 2003). These species are recorded from China, Mongolia, Burma, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Australia, South Africa, America (New Jersey), England, Germany, and Russia ( Carpenter 1992; Shcherbakov & Popov 2002; Grimaldi & Engel 2005).